Legal experts tonight. Were discussing rico is a powerful charge because it is so broad. It is one of the broadest laws in the nation, the way georgia uses it, as the Washington Post explains, because prosecutors can weave together alleged crimes, violations of state and federal laws, activities in other states, the law as this d. A. Knows well, does not require a defendant to set foot in georgia to be charged. Why . Because rico is that broad, you do need, of course, something to happen in the state, in georgia, but you could be a person who stayed out of state. Maybe youre a busy coconspirator. Maybe youre a coward and send other people to do things for you. Under the Georgia State rico statute, a long as some people have committed these crimes of some kind inside the state, other people can be looped in. Thats one of the ways d. A. Willis came out with this strong, broad set of charges last night rounding up these 19 defendants. Theyre not all Household Names. I want to show you def
legal experts tonight. we re discussing rico is a powerful charge because it is so broad. it is one of the broadest laws in the nation, the way georgia uses it, as the washington post explains, because prosecutors can weave together alleged crimes, violations of state and federal laws, activities in other states, the law as this d.a. knows well, does not require a defendant to set foot in georgia to be charged. why? because rico is that broad, you do need, of course, something to happen in the state, in georgia, but you could be a person who stayed out of state. maybe you re a busy co-conspirator. maybe you re a coward and send other people to do things for you. under the georgia state rico statute, a long as some people have committed these crimes of some kind inside the state, other people can be looped in. that s one of the ways d.a. willis came out with this strong, broad set of charges last night rounding up these 19
was unlawfully conspiring to solicit requests and get ruby freeman to get new false statements that would fit in their conspiracy, lies, online, online. the indictment says they were recruited by william loses philip that third, the head of a group the causes of black voices for trump. in june ruby freeman and shaye moss were cleared of any fraud cases. and this whole process led to a georgia elections board double checking what are now initially what led to the indictments. so they even double check what the now indicted coconspirators were pushing. indictments are just. at the d.a. was clear about that last night. a set of allegations that have not been proven. these people are legally presumed innocent. but being legally presumed innocent s court is the legal side. the public side, or we just saw in that general six testimony and what has been documented, which you might read about in a paper, has been beyond ugly.
now, meek mill said he moved on from being on the most wanted list. trump is a defendant on what you might call georgia s most wanted list. these are the different plots, some of these, of course, very familiar, because if you look at the top of your screen, the electors plot was under scrutiny in the january 6th probe. and doj charged it through jack smith s probe. but there are new things that this d.a. has uncovered. the second arrow is the effective plot to get georgia to overturn the votes. the d.a. has also charged the vice president pence plot out of georgia because it related. the doj interference as well, and if you go down to the bottom two arrows here, this is part of the rico conspiracy for the first time, we can show you that horrific poll worker harassment, it was unethical, terrible, it was criticized, but now it is indicted as part of the rico conspiracy along with the alleged voting data breach led
after her. it intimidated her, threatened her. just for doing, and they don t get paid a lot of money, their job. to uplift democracy. so it s very important the d.a. willis highlights what allegedly happened to them in this indictment, it is it s very important. we have about 45 seconds, but there s law in this humanity. do you think this story and this evidence will move jurors? i think it will. you can talk about donald trump really believes he won. that does not give you the right to harass and intimidate election workers because you believe you won. i think it will move jurors. really striking. so much going on. we wanted to get to that and hear from you miss christian. thank you so much. happy to be here. we will be right back. e wwill be right back